June 14, 2019
The most famous – from New Zealand
From August 11 to August 17, the world championship in the discipline “match races” will be held in Yekaterinburg; the venue will be the Verkh-Isetsky pond, the Komatek Yacht Club.
Teams of yachtsmen from the following countries will arrive in Ekaterinburg: Australia, USA, Czech Republic, Sweden, Great Britain, France, Argentina, Poland, Italy, New Zealand and Japan.
New Zealand steering wheel Nick Egnot-Johnson (Nick Egnot-Johnson) is the most eminent of the list of participants in the World Championships in Yekaterinburg, he ranks 14th in the world ranking of skippers match races.
Who will become a member of the world championship from our country will be known in mid-summer, after the Russian championship, which will be held in Yekaterinburg from July 18 to 21.
The judges of the world championship will come from countries such as Argentina, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, India and Russia. The chairman of the racing commission will be the Russian judge, and the technical delegate of World Sailing will be the representative of Portugal.
The championship organizing committee is headed by the vice-governor Pavel Krekov, the deputies are the regional minister of physical culture and sports Leonid Rapoport and the head of Ekaterinburg, Alexander Vysokinsky. The organizing committee includes representatives of regional authorities, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Komatek Yacht Club.
Natalya Saltanova,
Press Secretary of the “Komatek Provincial Yacht Club”
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